A rioter who climbed on a PSNI Land Rover then placed a plastic bag over a CCTV camera recording ongoing disorder was spared jail on Friday.
John Edward Alexander Blair, 33, was handed a two-year sentence, which was suspended for three years, at Belfast Crown Court - more than a decade after the trouble he was involved in.
The father-of-two, from Fairfax Road in Cirencester, England, admitted his involvement in the riot which broke out on July 1, 2011. During the intense street disorder in the Newtownards Road area of Belfast, crowds gathered and missiles including petrol bombs were launched.
